The special, in which Winfrey interviewed President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in DC, pulled in nearly 12 million viewers from 10 to 11 p.m.

While that finished a distant second to NBC’s Giants-Eagles game — which averaged 21.9 million viewers — it was ABC’s best 10 p.m. numbers since last month’s infamous “American Music Awards” telecast, which featured Adam Lambert’s raunchy on-camera antics.